Spot on! The script qemu-ifup was indeed the cause of the problem. It's a dummy script that only does "exit 0" and it was apparently needed in the past with old versions of libvirt. I see examples on the net  where it is used to configure interfaces with shell commands. I don't need it.

I see that everything works fine without the <script path="/opt/oa/etc/qemu-ifup"/> line, for vhostuser and ethernet interfaces. Are there any side effects or can I safely remove that line?

Thanks again!

Riccardo

On 22 February 2018 at 20:55, Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> wrote:
[...]
>     <interface type="vhostuser">
>       <script path="/opt/oa/etc/qemu-ifup"/>

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Why do you have this line?

Spo> $ virsh create vm.xml
> error: Failed to create domain from vm.xml
> error: unsupported configuration: scripts are not supported on
> interfaces of type vhostuser

This error message tells you exactly what is wrong. The <script> element
is only supported for interfaces of type='ethernet' - these are
interfaces for which a tap device is created, but it's not connected to
anything; the purpose of the script is to connect the tap to device to
[something user-defined]. Other types of interface (e.g. vhost-user)
should have enough intelligence built into the code to perform all
necessary setup.

Do you actually have something in this qemu-ifup file?


>
>
> The logs from libvirtd.log say:
> 2018-02-22 09:18:24.982+0000: 2033: warning :
> qemuProcessStartWarnShmem:4539 : Detected vhost-user interface without
> any shared memory, the interface might not be operational
> 2018-02-22 09:18:24.982+0000: 2033: error : qemuBuildHostNetStr:3894 :
> unsupported configuration: scripts are not supported on interfaces of
> type vhostuser
>
> The logs from qemu simply say:
> 2018-02-22 09:26:15.857+0000: shutting down, reason=failed
>
> And finally, ovs-vswitchd.log:
> 2018-02-22T09:18:24.715Z|00328|dpdk|INFO|VHOST_CONFIG: vhost-user
> client: socket created, fd: 51
> 2018-02-22T09:18:24.716Z|00329|netdev_dpdk|INFO|vHost User device '0.vm'
> created in 'client' mode, using client socket '/opt/oa/vhost/0.vm.sock'
> 2018-02-22T09:18:24.718Z|00330|dpdk|WARN|VHOST_CONFIG: failed to connect
> to /opt/oa/vhost/0.vm.sock: No such file or directory
> 2018-02-22T09:18:24.718Z|00331|dpdk|INFO|VHOST_CONFIG:
> /opt/oa/vhost/0.vm.sock: reconnecting...
> 2018-02-22T09:18:24.718Z|00332|bridge|INFO|bridge switch1: added
> interface 0.vm on port 5
>
>
> Am I missing something on the openvswitch or on the libvirt side?
>
> It looks like openvswitch can't find /opt/oa/vhost/0.vm.sock, but isn't
> either openvswitch or libvirt in charge of creating it?
> Then, I'm not too sure about the error messages in libvirtd.log...
>
> My software versions are: libvirt 3.10.0, qemu 2.10.2, openvswitch 2.8.1
> and DPDK 17.11.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Riccardo
>
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